Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 479 448
Rank change year-on-year +16 -31 +29
Contract jobs citing Packer 59 33 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.25% 0.75% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 25 96
10th Percentile £418 £418 £413
25th Percentile £489 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £548
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.20% -8.75%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £660 £938 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £535 £545
% change year-on-year +9.81% -1.74% -9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £76.53

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,736 4,406 5,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.28% 14.16% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,141 2,870 4,227
10th Percentile £303 £315 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 50 157
10th Percentile £18.65 £19.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.80 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -24.83% +96.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.25 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.08 £49.87
% change year-on-year -14.49% -29.65% +99.46%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +12 32 £600 +13.74% 4
North of England - 8 £525 - 2
South East - 6 £435 - 5
South West +13 4 £538 -17.31% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £513 - 1
North West - 3 £600 - 1
East of England -10 1 £500 -
North East - 1 £425 -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (40.68%) nginx
2 23 (38.98%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 41 (69.49%) AWS
2 32 (54.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (23.73%) GitHub
4 11 (18.64%) Entra ID
5 10 (16.95%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (15.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (11.86%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (11.86%) Azure
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
9 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (8.47%) Serverless
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.78%) IaaS
10 4 (6.78%) Route 53
11 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (3.39%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.73%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) DHCP
3 3 (5.08%) SSH
4 2 (3.39%) Firewall
5 1 (1.69%) Internet
5 1 (1.69%) NAS
5 1 (1.69%) SAN
5 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.17%) Redis
4 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (49.15%) Git
2 23 (38.98%) JIRA
3 17 (28.81%) GitLab
4 16 (27.12%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.17%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (27.12%) Public Sector
2 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Finance
4 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Lead
3 11 (18.64%) Technical Leader
4 10 (16.95%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (11.86%) Lead DevOps
5 7 (11.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Scrum Master
7 4 (6.78%) Senior
8 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Kafka Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) Kafka
2 13 (22.03%) Keycloak
3 10 (16.95%) YAML
4 7 (11.86%) cloud-init
5 6 (10.17%) AWS CDK
5 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.78%) Node.js
7 2 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) PKI
2 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) CMDB
4 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (77.97%) Linux
2 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 7 (11.86%) CentOS
3 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Windows
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) DevOps
2 31 (52.54%) Agile
3 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
4 25 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
5 14 (23.73%) Observability
6 13 (22.03%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (16.95%) Scrum
9 7 (11.86%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 5 (8.47%) Event-Driven
11 4 (6.78%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (6.78%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (6.78%) Incident Response
11 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (6.78%) Kanban
11 4 (6.78%) Load Balancing
11 4 (6.78%) Microservices
11 4 (6.78%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 18 (30.51%) Bash
3 10 (16.95%) Go
4 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.56%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.78%) Bicep
6 3 (5.08%) Perl
6 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.39%) Java
8 1 (1.69%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (72.88%) Security Cleared
2 42 (71.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) CCA
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (49.15%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) Lustre
4 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (88.14%) Terraform
2 37 (62.71%) Kubernetes
3 27 (45.76%) Ansible
4 21 (35.59%) Consul
5 11 (18.64%) Grafana
5 11 (18.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (11.86%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (3.39%) Fluentd
7 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.39%) Kibana
7 2 (3.39%) Podman
7 2 (3.39%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.69%) Argo
8 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.69%) vRealize
8 1 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.69%) yum
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Splunk
2 7 (11.86%) Okta
3 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) CyberArk